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[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386 

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Anil S Keshavamurthy 2006-06-26 00:25:25 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 1bd858a507
commit b71b5b6528
2 changed files with 38 additions and 2 deletions
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38
arch/i386/mm/fault.c
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@ -30,6 +30,40 @@
extern void die(const char *,struct pt_regs *,long);
#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain);
int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
vmalloc_sync_all();
return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
}
int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
}
static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
{
struct die_args args = {
.regs = regs,
.str = str,
.err = err,
.trapnr = trap,
.signr = sig
};
return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&notify_page_fault_chain, val, &args);
}
#else
static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
{
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
#endif
/*
* Unlock any spinlocks which will prevent us from getting the
* message out
@ -324,7 +358,7 @@ fastcall void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
if (unlikely(address >= TASK_SIZE)) {
if (!(error_code & 0x0000000d) && vmalloc_fault(address) >= 0)
return;
if (notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
if (notify_page_fault(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
return;
/*
@ -334,7 +368,7 @@ fastcall void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs,
goto bad_area_nosemaphore;
}
if (notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
if (notify_page_fault(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, error_code, 14,
SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
return;

2
include/asm-i386/kdebug.h
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@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ struct die_args {
extern int register_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
extern int unregister_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
extern int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
extern int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *);
extern struct atomic_notifier_head i386die_chain;